Tomorrow is the first day of school. Sean starts middle school, Sam goes to a new school for fifth grade, and Stu starts kindergarten. It is an exciting day. Tomorrow I meet a whole new group of students and I start a whole new year. I am looking forward to it and not at the same time. I love being able to start over and fix things I did wrong the year before. I get sad because the kids I got to know last year have moved on and won’t be in my room any more.
I have a lot of challenges this year. I have two team taught classes, meaning I am teaching with a special ed teacher and I have several special ed kids in my classes. The kids are not the challenge I can handle the kids. The team teacher is the area of growth. She is as sped as the kids and we have taught together before and it was tough. We will see how it goes this year and how it will end up. As long as I stay true to who I am it should all work out, right?
I also have three THREE mentees. There is a mentor program at our school for new teachers and this year I was given three teachers to help. They all have their own needs as well so they are taking a lot of my time. I ended up going in on Saturday to work by myself so I could actually get stuff done.
I am really excited to be doing new things that are exciting and that not everyone is asked to do but it may be a long year.
Tomorrow is the first day.
